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130    WEST    87TH    STREET 

New  York,  April  4,  1919. 
Mr.  William  K.  Bixby, 

King's  Highway  and  Lindell  Avenue, 
St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

Dear  Sir  : 

A  copy  of  this  letter  and  a  copy  of  the  Brochure  en- 
titled 

ART  MUSEUMS  AND  ARTISTS 

are    for    the    consideration    of    the    recipients    of    that 
Brochure  and  of  the  two  books  entitled  respectively 

PAINTER  AND  PATRON 

AND 

PICTURE  BUYING 

Among  such  recipients  are,  or  will  be,  the  following: 

1.  The  President  and  members  of  the  Council  of  the  National 

Academy  of  Design. 

2.  The  members  of  the  National  Academy  of  Design,  both  the 

Academicians  and  the  Associate  National  Academicians. 

3.  Non-members  of  the  National  Academy  of  Design,  who  had 

Exhibits  in  the  Winter  Exhibition  of  the  National  Academy 
of  Design  in  New  York  City  in  December,  1918,  and 
January,  1919. 

4.  The  Trustees  of  the  Boston  Museum  of  Art. 

5.  The  Trustees  of  the  Worcester  Museum  of  Art. 

6.  The  Trustees  of  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York 

City._ 

7.  The   Directors  of  Museums  of  Art  throughout  the  United 

States  of  America. 

8.  The  Presidents  and  other  officers  of  Universities,  Colleges, 

Libraries,  and  Clubs  throughout  the  United  States  of 
America. 

9.  Members  of  the  Class  of  1873  Harvard  College. 
10.  Individuals  not  included  in  above  classes. 

Some  of  the  readers  of  that  Brochure  or  of  either 
of  the  two  books  above  mentioned,  may  be  able  and 
willing  to  add  to  the  suggestion  contained  in  your  letter 
to  me  dated  March  27,  1919,  printed  in  that  Brochure 
or  to  the  suggestion  contained  in  both  of  the  books  above 
mentioned.  Perhaps  some  of  such  readers  may  be  will- 
ing to  give  their  opinion  of  your  suggestion  contained 
in  your  letter  printed  in  the  Brochure. 

Yours  truly, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


ART  MUSEUMS  AND  ARTISTS 


'The   Strongest   Man   on   Earth 
Is  He  Who  Stands  Most  Alone' 


With  the  Compliments  of 
P^DWARD  DETRAZ  BeTTENS 

130  West  87th  Street 
new  york,  new  york 

U.  S.  A. 


The  privately  distributed  books  entitled 
PAINTER  AND  PATRON 

AND 

PICTURE  BUYING 

ask  why  Art  Museums  do  not  cultivate  the  habit 
of  buying  contemporary  paintings  from  living 
painters.  On  the  title  page  of  the  book  Picture 
Buying  are  printed  the  words : 

"The   Strongest   Man   on   Earth 
Is  He  Who  Stands  Most  Alone" 

The  letters,  now  printed  for  private  distribution, 
may  interest  some  of  the  readers  of  the  books 
above  mentioned. 

Edward  Detraz  Bettens. 
April  11,  1919. 


Cambridge,  Mass., 

March  21,  1919. 


Dear  Mr.  Bettens 


I  thank  you  for  sending  me  your  new  book 
Picture  Buying;  for  I  find  in  it  many  interesting 
letters. 

Will  you  allow  me  to  say  that  the  motto  on 
your  title  page  needs  a  good  deal  of  interpreting 
to  make  it  safe  for  general  use?  I,  for  example, 
should  say  as  a  result  of  my  observation  that  no 
human  being  can  become  very  strong  mentally 
and  morally  unless  he  has  numerous  contacts  with 
his  fellow-beings.  I  cannot  think  of  any  great 
man  in  times  past  who  stood  alone.  Have  not  the 
greatest  teachers,  rulers,  and  writers  always  been 
men  who  lived  with  and  served  innumerable 
other  people?  Perhaps  the  context  would  explain 
the  motto.  I  do  not  know  the  source  of  the 
quotation. 

Sincerely  yours, 

Charles  W.  Euot.* 
Edward  D.  Bettens,  Esq. 

*President  Emeritus  of  Harvard  University. 


394.148 


New  York,  March  22,  1919. 

Dear  Mr.  Eliot: 

As  a  Christmas  gift  to  my  mother  in  1890  I  gave  her 
a  translation  of  Henrik  Ibsen's  book,  then  entitled  An 
Enemy  of  Society,  but  now  published  under  the  title  of 
An  Enemy  of  the  People. 

The  last  words  spoken  by  Dr.  Stockmann  in  that  play 
were: 

"You  see,  the  fact  is  that  the  strongest  man  on  earth 
is  he  who  stands  most  alone." 

For  years  Dr.  Stockmann  had  been  and  still  was  in 
active  contact  with  his  fellow  men,  but  becoming  con- 
vinced that  typhoid  germs  were  in  the  water  of  the 
Swimming  Pool,  of  which  Pool,  as  a  medical  doctor, 
he  had  charge,  he  refused  to  change  that  opinion  or  to 
keep  from  publishing  his  discovery,  although  substan- 
tially the  whole  community  demanded  that  he  should  do 
one  or  the  other.  The  consequence  to  him  of  such  refusal 
is  the  leading  theme  of  the  Ibsen  play,  ending  in  the 
words  quoted  on  the  title  page  of  Picture  Buying. 

Were  not  Socrates,  Christ,  Huss,  Savonarola  and 
William  Lloyd  Garrison  supremely  strong,  when  they 
were  very  much  alone? 

In  the  book  Painter  and  Patron,  a  copy  of  which  you 
have,  an  art  dealer  is  quoted  as  saying  that  fear  often 
prevents  Directors  and  Trustees  of  Art  Museums  from 
buying  the  paintings  of  living  painters,  although  con- 
vinced that  they  should  be  purchased.  Dr.  Stockmann's 
words  are  printed  on  the  title  page  of  the  book  Picture 
Buying  as  a  suggestion  that  such  Directors  and  Trustees 
should  follow  their  own  well  considered  judgments  re- 
gardless of  what  others  may  think  or  say. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 
Dr.  Charles  W.  Eliot. 


BROOKS    MEMORIAL   ART    GALLERY 

OVERTON    PARK 

MEMPHIS.   TENNESSEE 


Office  of  Director 


March  22,  1919. 
Mr.  Edward  D.  Bettens, 
130  West  87th  St., 

New  York  City. 

My  dear  Mr.  Bettens: 

I  am  exceedingly  glad  to  have  an  opportunity, 
to  thank  you  again,  for  another  of  the  lovely 
books,  dedicated  to  your  mother — the  book  Pic- 
ture Buying.  I  am  most  interested  in  your  idea 
of  getting  in  closer  touch  with  the  artist,  and 
think  it  a  splendid  plan  to  buy  direct  from  the 
artist.  And  also  the  point  you  make,  in  trying 
to  get  more  of  the  best  artists  to  send  to  the 
regular  exhibitions.  This  would  simplify  the 
buying  and  also  the  collecting  of  works  of  art  for 
exhibitions,  for  the  various  Museums.  I  think  it 
too  bad  we  are  not  always  able  to  get  first  class 
canvases,  for  our  temporary  exhibitions.  There 
are  many  things  that  should  be  adjusted  in  the 
art  world  and  especially  in  regard  to  Museum 
work.  Realizing  this,  I  can  say  again  sincerely, 
— Anything  done  along  these  lines,  is  most 
worthy.  I  wish  you  all  possible  success  in  your 
work. 

Sincerely  yours, 

Florence  M.  McIntyre, 

Director. 


KINGS    HIGHWAY    AND    LINDELL   AVENUE 


St.  Louis,  Missouri, 

March  27,  1919. 

Edward  Detraz  Bettens,  Esq., 
New  York  City. 

My  dear  Sir: 

Many  thanks  for  your  book  on  Picture  Buying. 
Your  idea  is  all  right,  and  if  all  the  artists  desired 
to  carry  out  the  idea,  there  would  be  little  diffi- 
culty in  accomplishing  it.  I  realize  fully  the 
difficulties,  and  the  practical  questions  involved, 
but  we  all  know  that  if  the  leading  artists,  and  the 
Directors  of  Art  Museums  would  unite  in  the 
work,  and  have  several  traveling  exhibitions, 
moving  from  one  museum  to  another,  so  that 
each  museum  would  have  at  least  three  represen- 
tative exhibitions  each  year,  of  the  work  of  Amer- 
ican Artists,  there  would  be  many  sales,  and  what 
is  more  important,  the  work  of  the  different 
artists  would  be  known  to  a  larger  circle. 

But  of  course  this  would  involve  juries  of  selec- 
tion,— and  we  all  know  what  that  means — and 
unselfish  work  to  give  the  promising  young 
artists  a  chance,  and  still  have  the  older  and 

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stronger  ones  strongly  represented.  It  is  an  iron 
clad  rule  in  our  Museum  that  neither  the  Museum 
itself,  nor  any  employe,  shall  receive  any  com- 
mission or  compensation  of  any  kind  from  sales 
made  to  our  citizens  of  any  exhibit.  The  mu- 
seums would  undoubtedly  gladly  pay  the  cost  of 
transportation  and  insurance,  but  of  course  the 
difficulty  is  that  the  best  known  artists  who,  by 
their  cooperation  could  make  such  a  plan  a  suc- 
cess, do  not  need  to  send  their  pictures  from  their 
studios.  Personally  I  prefer  to  buy  pictures  by 
living  artists  from  the  artists  themselves,  and  the 
greater  part  of  my  own  American  pictures,  and 
those  in  the  Bixby  collection  at  the  St.  Louis  City 
Art  Museum,  have  been  so  purchased.  But  there 
are  so  many  difficulties  in  the  way  of  practically 
carrying  out  such  a  plan  as  I  have  suggested  in 
this  letter,  and  have  the  cooperation  of  the  more 
important  artists,  that  I  fear  there  is  little  chance 
of  changing  present  methods. 

Sincerely, 

W.  K.  Bixby.* 


♦William  Keeney  Bixby,  retired  manufacturer;  LL.D.  Univer- 
sity of  Missouri;  President  of  City  Art  Museum,  St.  Louis, 
Missouri. 


CASE   SCHOOL   OF   APPLIED   SCIENCE 

Cleveland,  Ohio, 

March  24,  1919. 

Mr.  Edward  Detraz  Bettens, 
130  West  87th  St., 
New  York. 

My  dear  Classmate  : 

I  thank  you  cordially  for  the  book  Picture 
Buying  which  you  were  kind  enough  to  send  me. 
I  rejoice  to  see  that  your  earnestness  and  persist- 
ence is  accomplishing  your  worthy  purpose,  and 
is  provoking  those  interested  in  pictures  to  the 
consideration  of  a  subject  which  only  requires 
iteration  to  secure  universal  approval.  Without 
such  insistence  as  we  owe  to  you,  this  busy  age 
would  overlook  an  evident  truth,  that  painters 
rather  than  brokers  deserve  the  rewards  of  ar- 
tistic skill.  You  are  sowing  good  seed  and  the 
harvest  will  appear  after  patient  waiting.  With 
many  thanks  yours  in  the  bonds  of  '73. 

Geo.  H.  Johnson.* 

*H.73;  Professor  in  Case  School  of  Applied  Science. 


MRS.  LOUISE  E.  BETTENS 


"Pippa  passes" 


With  the  Compliments  of 

Edward  Detraz  Bettens 

130  West  87th  Street 
new  york,  new  york 

V.  S.  A. 


A  Book  entitled,  Painter  and  Patron,  suggests  that 
Art  Museums  cultivate  the  habit  of  buying  paintings 
direct  from  living  painters. 

A  Brochure,  entitled,  Art  Museums  and  Artists,  sug- 
gests that  Artists  and  Art  Museums  unite  in  sending, 
three  times  a  year,  to  Art  Museums  throughout  the 
United  States  of  America,  travelling  exhibitions  of  the 
art  of  living  American  painters. 

These  suggestions  are  the  result  of  the  influence  on 
Art,  of  the  spirit  of 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens. 


This  Brochure  is 

For  Private  Distribution. 


Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 

On  a  farm,  near  Ghent,  Kentucky,  there  was 
born,  January  7,  1827,  Louise  E.  Rochat,  the 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Nancy  Rochat.  A  reader 
of  books,  this  father  usually  had  one  with  him, 
even  when  at  his  work.  When  this  daughter 
was  old  enough,  she  became  his  companion,  and 
not  infrequently,  he  would  unhitch  the  horses 
from  the  plow,  or  stop  whatever  work  he  was 
doing,  and  read  aloud  to  his  daughter. 

The  Book  of  Job,  the  Psalms  of  David,  the 
poetry  of  Moore,  Burns  and  Byron  quickened  the 
mind  of  the  girl,  and  a  strong  desire  for  knowl- 
edge and  wisdom  early  came  to  this  child,  from 
such  a  father,  but,  at  the  same  time,  the  neg- 
lected farm  work  soon  ended  in  the  loss  of  the 
farm.  With  his  family,  Jacob  Rochat  went  to 
Vevay,  Indiana,  and  there  on  January  31,  1843, 
Louise  E.  Rochat,  not  yet  seventeen  years  of  age, 
married  Alexander  Bettens.  From  that  mar- 
riage were  born,  in  Vevay,  Frank,  Rose,  Edward 
Detraz  and  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  naming  the 
children  in  the  order  of  their  births.  Rose,  born 
May  10,  1846,  died  June  28,  1849. 

The  girl,  Louise  E.  Rochat,  and  the  matron, 
Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  loved  nature  and  ani- 

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mals.  In  Vevay  a  crow  became  her  friend  and 
the  two  would  go  together  into  the  woods,  the 
crow  flying  off  among  the  trees,  but  returning 
to  its  friend  at  her  call. 

At  the  expiration  of  about  ten  years  of  mar- 
ried life,  Alexander  Bettens'  health  failed.  He 
never  regained  it,  dying  August  11,  1870. 

That  sickness,  and  financial  embarrassment, 
brought  Mrs.  Bettens  face  to  face  with  the  prob- 
lem of  supporting  and  educating  her  three  young 
sons  from  her  own  earnings. 

Teaching  for  a  few  years,  in  and  about  Vevay, 
gave  her  but  a  small  and  precarious  income,  and 
writing  for  the  newspapers,  none  at  all. 

About  1857  she  and  her  three  sons  were  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  for  about  ten  years  she 
remained  in  that  city,  with  them,  supporting  them 
with  wages,  never  more  than  about  twelve  dollars 
per  week. 

No  friendly  bird  visited  her  in  her  Cincinnati 
room.  No  books,  except  school  books,  were  pur- 
chased by  her  during  those  ten  years,  but  her 
boys  entered  and  passed  through  the  District 
Schools  into  the  Intermediate  Schools,  Frank 
being  in  Woodward  High  School  when  he  died 
March  10,  1864. 

The  poverty  and  grief  of  Frank's  mother,  the 
hopes,  centered  in  him,  shattered  by  his  death, 

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at  the  age  of  twenty,  did  not  interfere  with  the 
education  of  her  two  remaining  sons.  They 
passed  through  the  Intermediate,  and  Wood- 
ward High  Schools  of  Cincinnati,  and  entered 
Harvard  College,  and  at  the  age  of  forty-six, 
their  mother  joined  them  in  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  June,  1873. 

In  Appleton  Chapel,  she  heard  Edward  speak 
on  Hildebrand,  and  saw  him  receive,  on  com- 
mencement day,  in  June,  1873,  his  degree  of 
A.  B.  from  Harvard  College. 

She  remained  in  Cambridge,  and  in  June,  1874, 
Thomas  gave  her  his  Harvard  College  diploma 
of  A.  B.  received  by  him  that  month,  and  the 
next  year  she  received  from  him  his  Harvard 
College  diploma  of  A.  M. 

From  June,  1873,  until  she  died  she  and 
Edward  had  one  home. 

Thomas  was  a  teacher  in  Lake  Forest  Acad- 
emy, Lake  Forest,  Illinois,  during  1875  and  1876. 
In  1877  he  joined  his  mother  and  brother  in  New 
York  City,  where  Edward  was  a  lawyer,  and 
there  the  three  lived  united  in  one  home  until 
Thomas  died  July  2,  1907. 

In  the  Harvard  College  Library  (Gore  Hall) 
Mr.  John  Fiske  gave  Mrs.  Bettens  an  alcove  and 
a  special  table,  and  talked  with  her  about  music 
and  books.     In  Boston  she  attended  the  lectures 


of  the  Reverend  James  Freeman  Clarke.  She 
absorbed  the  writings  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson. 
Congenial  friends  met  in  her  room  to  read  books, 
and  to  discuss  art,  music  and  literature,  and 
with  some  especial  friends,  she  attended,  in  Bos- 
ton, the  concerts  of  the  Symphony  Society.  So 
passed  about  three  years  of  her  life  in  Cam- 
bridge. 

The  last  thirty-eight  years  of  her  life  she  lived 
in  New  York  City.  She  was  in  Bar  Harbor, 
Maine,  for  the  summer,  for  about  thirty  succes- 
sive years,  up  to  and  including  the  summer  of 
1911. 

She  went  to  the  Grand  Opera  in  New  York 
City  and  was  a  constant  attendant  at  the  Con- 
certs given  in  that  city,  by  Theodore  Thomas, 
Leopold  Damrosch,  the  New  York  Philharmonic 
Society  and  the  Oratorio  Society.  She  did  not 
neglect  lighter  music  such  as  Gilbert  and  Sulli- 
van's. She  heard  Salvini,  Booth,  Irving,  Mod- 
jeska  and  Sara  Bernhardt;  was  delighted  with 
the  acting  at  Wallack's  and  Daly's  Theatres  and 
with  that  at  Harrigan  &  Hart's  and  Tony 
Pastor's. 

At  weekly  reunions  of  a  few  friends  in  her 
home  in  New  York  City,  music,  art  and  litera- 
ture, were,  as  in  Cambridge,  the  subject  of  con- 
versation. 

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Surrounded  by  her  books  as  her  friends,  and 
by  a  few  men  and  women,  and  by  her  sons,  until 
Thomas  died  July  2,  1907,  and  then  with  Edward, 
she  passed  into  the  evening  of  life,  losing  her 
eyesight  in  1909,  her  optic  nerve  dying. 

But  even  then  she  heard  re-read  the  poetry  of 
Byron,  Browning,  and  other  poets,  and  the 
novels  of  Dumas.  She  still  went  to  the  New 
York  Philharmonic  Concerts,  and  in  the  Sum- 
mers of  1909,  1910  and  1911,  at  Bar  Harbor, 
she  was  an  almost  daily  attendant  at  the  Boston 
Symphony  Concerts  given  at  the  Swimming  Pool. 
This  life  continued  until  the  evening  of  Novem- 
ber 10,  1911,  when,  for  the  last  time,  sitting  in 
her  library,  she  listened  to  one  of  the  glowing 
descriptions  in  Gibbon's  Decline  and  Fall  of  the 
Roman  Empire.  That  night  a  stroke  of  paralysis 
made  her  helpless,  from  the  effects  of  which  she 
never  recovered,  dying  March  23,  1914. 

In  the  Treasure  Room  of  the  Widener  Library, 
Harvard  College,  is  a  quarto  volume  of  inlaid 
letters  and  illustrations,  entitled  Louise  E.  Bet- 
tens,  bound  in  levant  by  Stikeman  &  Co.,  with 
no  star  on  its  back.  These  letters,  written  from 
her  home,  during  this  last  sickness,  to  intimate 
friends,  describe  her  life  of  about  two  years  and 
four  months  in  that  sick  room,  and  show  that 
music,  literature  of  the  highest  kind,  and  con- 

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versation,  sustained  her  and  enabled  her  to  for- 
get her  age,  and  physical  infirmities. 

The  Reading  of  the  Medea  of  Euripides  to  her 
on  November  25,  1912,  described  in  that  book, 
is  but  one  of  similar  readings  occurring  almost 
daily  during  that  sickness. 

In  March,  1864,  she  lost  Frank,  her  eldest 
child,  and  her  grief  and  poverty  were  then 
extreme. 

But  she  rose  superior  to  that  grief  and  pov- 
erty, and  in  her  last  sickness  she  was  superior  to 
the  infirmities  of  age  and  sickness,  being  sup- 
ported by  the  thoughts  and  visions  spread  before 
her  by  some  of  the  world's  great  minds. 

We  may  be  living  today  in  a  materialistic  age, 
but  idealism  is  not  dead  when  a  Louise  E.  Bettens 
lives.  The  picture  of  the  Reading  of  the  Medea 
of  Euripides  shows  that  the  mind  and  soul  of 
such  an  idealist  conquers  even  the  grim  visage 
of  approaching  Death  which  ceases  to  have  any 
terrors  for  her.  Perhaps  her  life  and  aspira- 
tions may  have  a  good  influence  upon  some  who 
see  that  picture  and  understand  its  meaning. 


Looking  Back 

Since  July,  1907,  an  effort  has  been  made  to  create  an 
enduring  record  of  the  life  and  character  of 

Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens. 

A  brief  statement  of  some  of  the  means  employed  and 
of  their  money  cost  is  as  follows : 

I.  Five  family  portraits  have  been  painted  by  Walter  cost 
Florian,  three  of  which  are  in  the  Louise  E.  Bettens 

Room  in  the  Phillips  Brooks  House,  Harvard  College.     $3,260.00 

II.  Seven  family  miniatures  have  been  painted  by 
Alyn  Williams,  and  all  are  in  a  case  in  the  Treasure 
Room  of  the  Harry  Elkins  Widener  Library,  Harvard 
College  4,742.00 

III.  The  case  above  mentioned  has  been  presented 

to  the  Harry  Elkins  Widener  Library 165.00 

IV.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips 
Brooks   House,    Harvard    College,   has   been    repaired 

and  furnished 2,733.11 

A  case  in  that  room,  for  books,  has  been  presented 
to  the  Phillips  Brooks  House  Association 75.00 

V.  The    Louise    E.    Bettens    Fund,    Phillips    Brooks 

House  Association,  has  been  created 2,500.00 

VI.  The  Louise  E.  Bettens  Fund,  established  by 
her  children,  in  the  William  Hayes  Fogg  Art  Museum, 
Harvard  College,  has  been  created 20,000.00 

Five  paintings  have  been  presented  to  the  William 
Hayes  Fogg  Art  Museum 8,300.00 

VII.  The  Thomas  Simms  Bettens  Fund,  Harvard 
Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Alpha  of  Massachusetts, 

has  been  created 2,000.00 

VIII.  Five  quarto  volumes  of  inlaid  letters  and  il- 
lustrations, bound  in  levant,  with   doublure   and  silk 

fly  leaves,  have  been  presented  to  Harvard  College...       1,008.00 

7 


Four  of  these  quartos  are  in  the  case  in  the  Treas-  cost 

ure  Room  above  mentioned.  The  fifth  quarto  is  in 
the  case  in  the  Louise  E.  Bettens  Room  in  the  Phillips 
Brooks  House. 

IX.  Books,  octavo  in  size,  one  copy  of  each  edition 
being  in  the  case  in  the  Treasure  Room  above  men- 
tioned, have  been  printed  and  privately  distributed  as 
gifts.     They  are  entitled  as  follows: 

(1)  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  A  Memorial,  325 
copies;  printed  on  hand  made  imperial  Japan  paper; 
photogravure  illustrations ;  cloth  covers $637.57 

(2)  Thomas  Simms  Bettens,  250  copies;  printed  on 
hand  made  imperial  Japan  paper;  photogravure  illus- 
trations; bound  in  levant  with  doublure  and  silk  fly 

leaves 4,434.55 

(3)  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  150  copies,  25  of  which 
were  extra  illustrated ;  printed  on  hand  made  imperial 
Japan  paper;   photographs  as  illustrations;   bound  in 

levant  with  doublure  and  silk  fly  leaves 2,078.90 

(4)  Louise  E.  Bettens,  250  copies ;  printed  on  Strath- 
more  paper  de  luxe,  photographs  as  illustrations ;  cloth 

covers    1,278.81 

(5)  The  Family  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  350 
copies ;  printed  on  Strathmore  paper  de  luxe ;  photo- 
graphs as  illustrations ;  cloth  covers 1,611.50 

(6)  Painter  and  Patron,  650  copies;  printed  on 
Strathmore    paper    de    luxe;    half    tone    illustrations; 

cloth  covers 1,489.29 

(7)  Picture  Buying,  650  copies;  printed  on  Strath- 
more   paper    de    luxe;    half    tone    illustrations;    cloth 

covers  1,341.47 

(8)  Picture  Buying,  450  copies;  printed  on  Dill  & 
Collins  superb  dull  coated  paper;  half  tone  illustra- 
tions ;  paper  covers 330.41 

(9)  Art  Museums  and  Artists,  1,200  copies  of  a 
paper  covered  Brochure  printed  on  Strathmore  paper 

de    luxe 102.50 

Edward  Detraz  Bettens. 
New  York,  April  11,  1919. 


New  York,  May  13,  1919. 

Samuel  B.  Clarke,  Esq., 
53  West  85th  Street, 
New  York  City. 

Dear  Clarke: 

In  my  opinion  the  true  memorial  of  my  mother, 
Airs.  Louise  E.  Bettens,  is  the  sketch  of  her  life 
and  character,  and  that  life  and  character  are 
what  is  valuable  to  the  world  more  than  the  gifts 
to  Harvard  College. 

The  gift  of  a  fine  life  and  character  to  the 
world,  such  as  that  of  Saint  Francis  of  Assisi, 
is  far  more  valuable  to  the  world  than  the  gifts 
of  all  of  the  temples,  cathedrals,  churches  and 
church  endowments  that  the  world  has  ever 
received. 

For  that  reason  I  have  placed  books,  contain- 
ing the  sketch  suggesting  my  mother's  life  and 
character  in  many  different  libraries,  art  museums 
and  clubs,  and  among  many  different  people. 

About  100  copies  of  the  brochures  "Art 
Museums  and  Artists"  and  "Mrs.  Louise  E. 
Bettens — Pippa  passes"  are  now  being  bound 
together  in  volumes. 

1  propose  to  place  these  little  books  in  libraries 
throughout  the  world,  and  may,  when  list  is  com- 
pleted, give  you  a  copy  of  it. 

Sincerely, 

Edward  D.  Bettens. 


53  West  85th  Street, 

New  York  City, 
May  14,  1919. 


Dear  Edward: 

I  should  be  very  glad  to  have  one  of  the  little 
books  mentioned  in  your  letter  to  me  dated  May 
13,  1919.  What  you  say  about  the  memorials  of 
your  mother  in  that  letter  is  so  convincing  that 
I  wish  you  had  put  the  substance  of  it  into  this 
last  book  or  one  of  the  prior  books. 

I  shall  follow  the  Cincinnati  developments  with 
much  interest.* 

Sincerely  yours, 

Samuel  B.  Clarke. 


Edward  D.  Bettens,  Esq. 


*This  refers  to  a  possible  memorial  of  Mrs.  Louise  E.  Bettens 
in  Woodward  High  School,  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  as  to  which  there 
has  been  some  correspondence  recently. 


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